Summary

  • Spirit win by 52 runs - second successive victory

  • Originals 108 all out: Salt 36 (34); Thompson 4-21

  • Spirit 160-6: Crawley 41 (34), Morgan 37 (26), Pollard 34* (11)

  • Spirit have won both games so far; Originals have lost both

  • Coming up on Tuesday: Northern Superchargers v Trent Rockets (18:30 BST)

Live Reporting

Ffion Wynne and Kal Sajad

  1. Kieron Pollard scored 34 from 11 balls. His innings may just prove to be the difference.

    That's my lot for today. Here's Ffion Wynne to see you through to the end of the game.

  2. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    That is a monster! Wow! What a shot! It is extraordinary.

    It is an absolutely ridiculous cricket shot.

  3. 6 runs

    Spirit 160-6

    It's outttttta here!! Huge from Kieron Pollard who smashes it back past the bowler's head for a massive six. What a way to finish.

  4. Spirit 154-6

    Dawson scrambles a bye. Pollard will face the final delivery of the innings. He has one thing in mind.

  5. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    That was a cross-batted heave really. It wasn't a shot that was necessarily in the MCC manual but it was effective.

  6. 6 runs

    Spirit 152-6

    Erm, it looks like Pollard might go berserk. He swats Fredrick Klaassen up and over long-on. It's not one from the cricketing manual, but it's effective.

  7. Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio

    London Spirit are getting up to around that 150 total now that we thought would be a good total and something they could defend.

    The Manchester Originals will be pretty happy though as long as Kieron Pollard doesn't go berserk from the final five balls.

  8. Spirit 145-6

    Liam Dawson joins Kieron Pollard in the middle and is almost out first ball as he fends off a Walters delivery and it falls inches short of the fielder at short third.

    A rare poor delivery from Walters is then sent packing to the square-leg boundary from Pollard.

    Nevertheless, Walters ends with figures 2-18 from his 20 balls. Well played.

  9. Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio

    He's got control of that for me. If you're fumbling it and it's against the ground that's not OK for me, but he's got control of that.

  10. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    It did look like he used the ball on the ground to balance himself there.

  11. wicket

    WICKET

    Bopara c Abbott b Walters 9 (Spirit 136-6)

    Paul Walter's wonderful night continues as Ravi Bopara's short cameo is over.

    Sean Abbott runs in from the deep, dives forward and takes the grab at long on. There's a slight bit of uncertainty whether the catch was taken cleanly, but the umpire gives it.

  12. Graphic: 10 balls to goBBC Sport

  13. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    That has flown into the grandstand. It was flat and brutal.

  14. 6 runs

    Spirit 136-5

    Brutal! Kieron Pollard picks up a full delivery and dispatches it over deep square leg. Unreal power.

  15. Spirit 130-5

    It's that time of the innings where risks are taken. Bopara nudges into the off side and sets off for a single. A direct hit and he's gone but the fielder is off the mark.

    Bopara had already given up.

  16. Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio

    Ravi Bopara has played some nice shots at this stage of the innings in the T20 Blast this year. He is very good at digging the ball out and finding the elevation.

  17. Spirit 128-4

    Back-to-back boundaries! Bopara rolling back the years! Timed to perfection as he guides it over backward point.

  18. Spirit 124-5

    Andre Russell takes off the shades and limbers up. Veteran Ravi Bopara, the new man in, steadies himself and slaps his first delivery for four.

  19. Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio

    Maybe the relay catch was mildly unnecessary but they were just making sure.

    Ironically that was probably out of the ground the other way.

  20. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    That was really well done. It was a good piece of work because it came from a long way up.